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Wiregrass boxing trainer/promoter Johnny Trawick to be inducted in Alabama Boxing Hall of Fame SHARE THIS Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Wiregrass boxing trainer/promoter Johnny Trawick to be inducted in Alabama Boxing Hall of Fame David Mundee Jul 10, 2020 Updated Jul 11, 2020 0 Johnny Trawick Wiregrass boxing trainer/promoter Johnny Trawick, seen in 2018 photo, will be inducted into the Alabama Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday afternoon.

JON JOHNSON / DOTHAN EAGLE Facebook Twitter Email Print Save David Mundee Johnny Trawick has had a long history in the sport of boxing in the Wiregrass.

Based out of Dothan and Ozark, Trawick has trained more than 3,000 athletes in the sport over 31 years, including Bryon Mitchell, an eventual world pro boxing champion in the Super middleweight, light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions. Most of the athletes he has trained have come through his Wolfpack Boxing Club, which trains at Wolfpack Mixed Marital Arts in Dothan.

Trawick has also been involved in boxing as a referee and a judge as well as working as a trainer, corner man, cut man and a promoter for fighters.

This upcoming Saturday (July 12), he will be honored for his service to the sport with induction into the Alabama Boxing Hall of Fame as part of the fourth class into the hall. He will join a hall that already features boxing legends Joe Louis, Evander Holyfield, Earnie Shavers and Deontay Wilder. Mitchell is also already in the hall.

Trawick, who will be inducted in the manager/trainer/promoter category, is one of six members in the 1 p.m. induction ceremony at the Skyy South Gym in Coffeeville, located in west Alabama. There were 76 coaches nominated for the hall, but Trawick will be the lone one to be inducted.

“I feel honored, I feel blessed and I feel really good about it,” Trawick said.

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However, Trawick feels today’s honor is more meaningful.

“They only select one guy each year in a particular category whereas at the other one there were probably four-five coaches inducted during the same time I was inducted that year,” Trawick said. “This one is a lot more exclusive, so I appreciate it a lot more.”

While blessed at the recognition, Trawick said the hall honor actually belongs to the boxers he has trained over the years and also to the boxers’ parents.

“I never threw a punch,” Trawick said. “I was never in the ring, but it was the parents that allowed me to take their children and give them an opportunity to compete in a wonderful sport of boxing.”

He added, “If it wasn’t for the parents, I wouldn’t be in it. They have entrusted me with their children’s health and well-being.”

Trawick said he expected he would likely earn induction into the state boxing hall, although he didn’t know exactly when. He just missed by one vote in each of the last two years.

“I was expecting it because I know what my resume looks like compared to other people’s resume that was inducted already,” Trawick said. “I wasn’t surprised. I knew it would come sooner or later.